Chris Shea

Professor of Classics, Ball State University

Chris Shea is Professor of Classics at Ball State University where she served as Chair of the University Senate and Chair of the Honors Committee. She is an expert in the culture of the Roman Empire in the first century and has published widely on Homer, The Arthurian saga, Latin love poetry, and American popular religion.

Publications

"Setting the Stage for Romances: Xenophon of Ephesus and the Ecphrasis," in Ancient Fiction and Early Christian Narrative, 1998

"Victims of Violence," in Curing Violence: Religion and the Thought of Rene Girard, 1994

with Olga R. Arans, "The Fall of Elpenor: Homeric Kirke and The folklore of the Caucasus," The Journal of Indo-European Studies, 1994

with Wade Jennings, "Paul Verhoeven: An Interview, Postscript: Essays in Film and the Humanities, 1993